title: [TIA does require acute hospitalization].
abstract: Following a TIA, patients are at a greater risk of vascular complications such as stroke or myocardial infarction. These often occur at an early stage. The ABCD2 score can be used to make a distinction between high-risk and low-risk patients. Prevention of vascular events requires rapid treatment with platelet inhibitors and timely surgical intervention for high-grade symptomatic carotid stenosis, if present. Patients with recurrent stroke need prompt thrombolysis. This can best be done by admitting patients to hospital and placing them under 24-hour observation.
authors.affiliation: Erasmus Medisch Centrum, afd. Neurologie, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. d.dippel@erasmusmc.nl
authors.forename: Diederik W J
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Dippel
mesh_terms: D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D002546:Ischemic Attack, Transient / Q000150:complications*; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000592:standards*; D012307:Risk Factors; D020521:Stroke / Q000517:prevention & control; D013997:Time Factors; D014218:Triage